If you are looking for a reliable and comprehensive monitoring solution for your IT infrastructure, you might want to consider Paessler, the monitoring experts since 1997. Paessler offers a range of products and solutions that can help you keep your infrastructure up, running, and optimized, while keeping everything surprisingly simple.
PRTG Network Monitor
PRTG Network Monitor is the flagship product of Paessler, and the solution that made the Paessler name well-known. It is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that can monitor all the systems, devices, traffic, and applications in your IT infrastructure. Whether you need to monitor servers, routers, switches, firewalls, printers, cloud services, virtual machines, databases, or web applications, PRTG can do it all.
PRTG has many features that make it stand out from other monitoring solutions:
- It has a user-friendly web interface that allows you to access your data from any device and customize your dashboards and maps.
- It supports more than 300 sensor types that cover various protocols and technologies, such as SNMP, WMI, NetFlow, Ping, HTTP, SQL, and more.
- It has a flexible alerting system that can notify you via email, SMS, push notifications, or third-party services like Slack or PagerDuty.
- It has an in-depth reporting function that can generate detailed reports on your network performance and availability.
- It has a distributed monitoring feature that can monitor multiple locations and remote networks using remote probes or cloud probes.
PRTG is suitable for small and midsize infrastructures with up to 10,000 sensors. You can download a free trial version of PRTG that can monitor up to 100 sensors for free forever. If you need more sensors, you can choose from various license options that fit your budget and needs.
PRTG Enterprise Monitor
PRTG Enterprise Monitor is a specialized enterprise solution that is best for large and very large infrastructures operating across multiple locations. It is based on PRTG Network Monitor but optimized for larger environments with powerful dashboards and support for monitoring business processes and SLAs.
PRTG Enterprise Monitor has some additional features that make it ideal for enterprise-level monitoring:
- It has an ITOps Board that provides a high-level overview of your entire IT infrastructure and its status. You can see the health of your business processes and services at a glance and drill down into the details if needed.
- It has a Service Level Agreement (SLA) plugin that allows you to define and monitor SLAs for your network services. You can set up thresholds and alerts for SLA violations and generate SLA reports for your stakeholders.
- It has a Multi Server Architecture that can scale up to hundreds of thousands of sensors across multiple PRTG core servers. You can distribute the load among different servers and ensure high availability and redundancy.
PRTG Enterprise Monitor is available as a subscription-based service that is billed annually based on your individual usage. You can request a demo of PRTG Enterprise Monitor to see how it works in action.
PRTG Hosted Monitor
PRTG Hosted Monitor is a cloud-based monitoring solution that allows you to monitor your IT infrastructure without installing any software or hardware. You simply sign up for an account and start adding sensors to monitor your devices and services.
PRTG Hosted Monitor has all the features of PRTG Network Monitor but with some benefits of cloud computing:
- It saves you time and money by eliminating the need for dedicated hardware, maintenance, updates, or backups.
- It gives you flexibility by allowing you to scale up or down your monitoring as needed. You only pay for what you use based on the number of sensors you deploy.
- It gives you security by encrypting your data in transit and at rest. You can also choose from different data centers around the world to comply with local regulations.
PRTG Hosted Monitor is available as a free trial version that can monitor up to 500 sensors for 30 days. After that, you can choose from monthly or annual billing plans based on your usage.
